#if there was a confirmed male bisexual in legacies i'll bite my tongue

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something something the way the tvdu has bisexual women (good) who are fetishized (bad) but every single male character who was attracted to other males was just strictly gay (weird)

people are mad about freya, rebekah AND hope being bisexual and. none of them ever said they were explicitly into men, it isn’t a retcon in the slightest, someone’s previous relationships or flings aren’t indicative of their sexuality. if we want to be mad about something, can we please make it the fact that rebekah’s sexuality was used for a threesome and then Not Brought Up Again?

all the male tvdu characters attracted to men being canonically gay isn’t necessarily a Bad Thing but it is weird to me, though, that the female characters are allowed (hm) to be bisexual. even weirder, no actual main guy in the tvdu was canonically anything other than straight despite plenty of the actors voicing their opinion that they were into both men and women. we all got the vibes and they Were backed up by the actors. maybe you could argue there was no way to casually drop it into the script but we got plenty of innuendos and no follow through. klaus went as far as to say lucien (doubtful) and tristan aren’t his type while implying they were elijah’s. we Know klaus is not straight but this was supposed?? to be a quip about elijah not being straight and they left it at that; a joke. everyone pretty much thinks klefan were together. damon and enzo had All Of That going on. sigh.

but no. all of our confirmed male characters were strictly gay (and they all died, except for those two in legacies? maybe. if they’re alive, good for them.) and... having gay characters isn’t BAD. that’s not what i’m saying. i’m happy we got who we got. i just think. that it was nice we got canonical lesbians and women who were bisexual and pansexual and some of them even managed to get happy endings and then the men just. hmm. y’know.